Sho Ali

You compare them to the job of a head coach in the NFL or in the NHL, someone standing behind the bench, or in basketball, someone standing with a clipboard in their hands, right?

And in the NFL, maybe it's even worse in the sense that –

today's nfl many of many of the head coaches are also calling plays right so they're all they're like they're very involved and the reason i bring this up is because like what do you what do you the viewer and us the media what are you seeing when you look at these coaches you're seeing them do something right you're seeing them do things right when you're in the nhl it's you know guys call a timeout and everyone huddles around the bench and the coaches is is is is you know

demonstrably pointing and saying and drawing on a whiteboard.

And same goes in the NBA.

And the coach is down on one knee, and everyone's huddled around them.

And then they drop a play, and someone tips in the bucket at the last second of an NBA finals game.

You see that tangibly with your own eyes.

And then, yeah, the NFL guys are actively calling plays or pulling down the mask of their quarterback to get in their ear and tell them something about the coverage on the field or whatever, right?

You just don't really see that in baseball.

I would say for even the quote-unquote best manager, you just don't see that.

To your point, what you do see is just what happens on the field as in Ernie Clement being asked to bunt or a guy not being pinch hit for or pointing out to the bullpen and calling for the right or wrong guy, for example.

That's all you get to really see, which I think

It reminds me of something that Mattingly had said, Don Mattingly, when the Phillies were here in town just a couple days ago, and Mattingly went on with Blair and Barker on their show.

I highly recommend giving it a listen.

He actually gave them a pretty decent chunk of time, which is pretty cool from a guy like Don Mattingly.

But I think it was, I forget which one of B&B asked him this question, but the question was something along the lines of, I'm paraphrasing, but it was something along the lines of, I think it was Blair who asked this, what can you take

from a previous spot in your career into now being the interim, of course, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.

And one of the things he said about what he had observed from John Schneider, and he even said that he feels he himself is more conservative, which, you know, I'm not particularly shocked.

An older guy, right, who has been around the game a really long time.